Syntactic complexity in college-level English writing: Differences among writers with diverse L1 backgrounds

By Xiaofei Lu, Haiyang Ai. 2015

332 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Yulia Tsvetkov
2. Ella Rabinovich
3. Hesamoddin Shahriari
4. Ahmad Ansarifar
5. Shuly Wintner
6. R. Pishghadam
7. Anjalie Field
8. Sachin Kumar

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Hesamoddin Shahriari
2. Ahmad Ansarifar
3. R. Pishghadam

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Hesamoddin Shahriari
2. Ahmad Ansarifar
3. Yulia Tsvetkov
4. R. Pishghadam

Citations in the corpus

• Native Language Cognate Effects on Second Language Lexical Choice (2018, background): “We compared these populations across various indices, assessing their proficiency with several commonly accepted lexical and syntactic complexity measures (Lu and Ai, 2015; Kyle and Crossley, 2015).”
• An update on discourse functions and syntactic complexity in synchronous and asynchronous communication (2016, unknown): “Also, a recent study by Lu and Ai (2015) demonstrates that, in addition to proficiency levels, the L1 background of college-level L2 writers must be taken into consideration in the design of syntactic complexity measures.”
• Phrasal complexity in academic writing: A comparison of abstracts written by graduate students and expert writers in applied linguistics (2018, background): “Hence, this difference in the register of texts in Parkinson and Musgrave’s (2014) study could have possibly influenced their findings.”